Someday when we’re old and puttering around with our fellow gearhead buddies the topic will turn to trivia and the question will be, “What was the lamest pace car of all time?” In unison, the assembled group of octogenarians will scream, “That shitbox Camry that led the 2012 Daytona 500”! We’ll all be right. Toyota excitedly unveiled the pace car for the event at a press conference yesterday. When the cover was pulled off the car, the Yoda PR people mistook a group snore as a gasp of excitement.
Toyota is still on the whole, “Please love me, America” push that has been going on for nearly a decade. They’ve been in NASCAR for eight years now, been selling their full size Tundra truck for 11 years now (and occupying near cellar dweller sales status for most of them), and been trying to convince the appliance motoring, sheep-like public that they are as ‘Merican a company as they come.
Will they sell an actual “pace car edition”? No mention of that has been made yet, as best we can tell. We think if they do that, it’ll be an awful failure. The typical Camry buyer thinks a NASCAR fan is short half a dozen teeth, shaves his (or her) body hair into the shape of car numbers, and spent six years in the fifth grade. Plus, immortalizing such a weenerific moment in racing history wouldn’t be cool. Then again, if they put the same carb’d, push-rodded, V8 in it that they use in the stock cars, we’d give it a second look.
Can we start a letter writing campaign to Tony Stewart, begging him to give this heap the chrome horn on the first pace lap?
Toyota announces Camry pacing 2012 Daytona 500
Just as lame as Nascar is today! Perfect pace car for them.
I’m guessing they wanted to run a Chevy as the pacecar, but were worried GM wouldn’t warranty the piece of crap when it breaks halfway through the race.
If its anything like other Toyota cars it will be recalled with a brake issue or something else soon enough!
so they built this for a goal to smash into instead of follow. Nascar goes for attention getting ideas all the time.
That’s great. A car from a Japanese compnay will pace the “Great American Race”. NASCAR contiues to find new ways to look ridiculous.
What a load ! Use anything but the westinghouse on wheels . The tow trucks would have been better. Maybe it will have unintended accelleration and make things fun.
It’s no worse or more watchable than Honda powered Indy. I think everything imported and foreign owned should be tariffed into oblivion. Our nation is mostly made of consumers with a skill set comprised of little more than the ability to juggle credit cards. NASCAR needs to be stock bodied, stock block, stock transmission case. Then I’d watch.
Oooh… extra doors. How cool is that.
[quote]a NASCAR fan is short half a dozen teeth, shaves his (or her) body hair into the shape of car numbers, and spent six years in the fifth grade[/quote]
There are the occasional few that fit that description perfectly.
more jap shit
I’VE STOPED WATCHING NASCAR SENCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CAR OF TOMMAROW, OR IS THAT THE CAR OF YESTERDAY? I DON’T KNOW OR CARE ABOUT NASCAR ANYMORE UNLESS I GET FREE TICKETS AND FREE BOOSE.
will it actualy be able to get oup to speed with out any assistance? i have never seen one go past 55mph on the expressway
Oh, where were all you phoney-ass flag wavers on the WhitePunk post about the Japanese bike?
Oh I see. Inconsistent.
Oh HOW exciting!!!! WOO HOO!! Pull your heads out of your a**es and wake up!!! Put some American Iron out there!!! NASCAR is washed up. You want to see NASCAR??? Go back to 1985 when you could tell which car was a Ford Chev or a Dodge. Now…. if you cant see the sticker on the bumper… you cant tell what it is!!! The car of tomorrow sucks too!!!
That pace car looks like a taxi cab I rode in once In Cancun, Mexico.
Yay! A stock Camry with a vinyl wrap and a light bar. Sweet! They went all out…
I live in the middle of nascar country but after seeing this lame ass toyota pace car i am moving!!!!!!
“Oh, where were all you phoney-ass flag wavers on the WhitePunk post about the Japanese bike?” Well, in my case (and I’m sure seveal others) I neither know nor care what WhitePunk is so obviosly didn’t see (or care about) whatever post you’re referring to. Not inconsistent at all.
WTF?
Who / what / where / when?
NASCAR …. yawn
Toyota in motorsports ….. yawn X 10,000
I hope all the fans vote with their feet and stay home. Send a message to JASCAR formerly NASCAR,,, pile of stinkin crap. Every drive one of these piles? Some idiot decided the turn signal switch should rotate with the steering wheel…
Take the floor mats out first! How much further can Nascar sink? I guess they can’t figure out why they’re losing fans.
I would only hope EVERY driver would put a “Doughnut” on the side of this shitbox every chance they get.
Huge INSULT to American Musclecar Lovers to put this POS into the same category as RS/SS 396 Camaros, LT1 Trans Ams, The Hurst Olds, Supercharged Camaros, Vettes, etc. Damn sh!tboxes are prolly radioactive, too!!! Four doors, 4 cylinders, 98 horsepower weaklings that can’t get out of there own way, BS!